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MELYNIAS SAUERI (Plate 140, figs. 2, 2a, c? ? ). 



Elymniai Saueri, Distant, Ehop. Malayana, p. 65, pi. 9. fig. 3, (J (1882). Marshall and de Niceville, 



Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 274 (1883), S- 

 Elymnias Kunstleri, Honrath, Berlin Ent. Zeitschr. 1885, p. 276, pi. 8, fig. 3, ? . Distant, Rhop. 



Malayana, p. 422, pi. 41, fig. 9 (1886), ? . 



Imago. — Male. " Upperside. Forewing dark violaceous-brown, witli paler blue 

 suffusions on apical area ; with a submarginal series of five pale violaceous-blue 

 spots, and three discal smaller indistinct spots ; costal margin basally speckled with 

 greyish strigse and apical bluish spots. Hinchving castaneous brown, the basal area 

 fuscous. Underside pale ferruginous, thickly mottled with dark chocolate-brown 

 strigae, which are irregular in shape and size. Forewing with the costal margin 

 speckled with grey ; the upper part of the cell and apical area somewhat paler in 

 hue, and with indications of a dark-waved fascia near the cell. Hindiuing somewhat 

 darker, the strigge being more numerous and contiguous, with indications of a much- 

 waved and irregular dark fascia crossing the wing about end of the cell, and a more 

 or less distinct broad submarginal fascia, followed by several waved, broken, and 

 indistinct lines " (Distant, I. c. 65). 



Female. " Upperside greyish- white. Foreicing with greyish-blue reflections in 

 the cell and pale ochraceous shadings on inner marginal area ; costa more or less 

 spotted and marked with blackish, thickly so to end of the cell, and some similar 

 markings in the cell along the median vein ; veinlets ornamented with fuscous and 

 blackish blotches, the three median veinlets and the lower discoidal veinlet most 

 prominently so. Hindwing with the basal and abdominal areas more or less shaded 

 with pale ochraceous ; veins with black and fuscous blotches as on forewing, but less 

 prominent ; a blackish spot uniting the discoidal and upper median veinlets ; a 

 submarginal series of irregular-shaped blackish spots, between which and the 

 posterior margin are many wavy fuscous and black irregularly-shaped and placed 

 linear spots. Forewing as above, but more uniformly greyish, the shadings along 

 the veins much more broken and unrelieved by fuscous-brown ; several curved black 

 lines crossing the cell. Hindwing generally as above " (Distant, I. c. 422). 



Expanse, S 3^)5 ^ ^\o inches. 



Habitat. — Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula. 



The male is a mimic of the same sex of the Euploeine Trepsichrois LinnEei,* 

 and the female, apparently, is a mimic of the Limnaine butterfly Hestia Agamar- 

 schana, or H. Donovani. 



Distribution. — A male of this species, taken by Capt. Bingham in the Thoung- 

 yeen Valley, Tenasserim, is in the British Museum collection. The male type 



* See vol. i. plate 35, and plate 4, fig. 1. 

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